Leszek Labedzki graduated in water management and hydrology from the Technical University of Warsaw, Poland, in 1978. From the beginning of his research activity till today he has been working in the Institute of Technology and Life Sciences at Falenty, Poland, where he has been, successively, an assistant, senior assistant, lecturer, associate professor and professor. His research interests are in agrometeorology and agricultural water management, comprising wide problems of water conditions in soils and agricultural areas, especially evapotranspiration, agricultural droughts, irrigation water requirements, water circulation in the soil-plant-atmosphere system and water distribution in agricultural areas. He teaches water management and operation of irrigation systems as a professor at the University of Technology and Life Sciences in Bydgoszcz, Poland.